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The mayor of Shelbyville, Indiana, says only people who live in ‘shitty houses’ oppose data center
A proposed $2 billion data center has become a political flashpoint in the small city of Shelbyville, Indiana. And the controversy has only grown more intense after the mayor, Scott Furgeson, was caught on camera saying of the "No Data…
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